Hello and welcome to the Green Alliance podcast. My name is Sean Spears and I'm Green

Alliance's director and I'm really pleased to welcome you to the latest edition of our

podcast. At what is an unsettling uncertain time for us all we want to use the podcast to

keep people informed of the latest news and developments in environmental politics and policy.

At Green Alliance, we'll be doing our best to connect people and foster the conversations we need to be having,

including through online events and this podcast series.

As ever, your suggestions and feedback will be very welcome.

Welcome to the Green Alliance podcast.

We are the charity and think tank that is all about ambitious leadership for the environment.

I'm Libby Peake, head of resource policy.

And I'm joined today by Adam Reed, External Affairs Director at Suez, for this, the second

in our series of recordings that reflect on what the coronavirus means for the environment and environmental policies.

Back when I was an environmental journalist and Adam was an environmental consultant,

I used to interview Adam fairly regularly.

But of course, nothing is really like all times anymore.

And today we're going to be reflecting on what the coronavirus means for the waste

and recycling industry, and also what it means for some of our efforts to improve how resources are

used. Adam, welcome to the podcast. Thank you, Libis. It's a pleasure to be here. And it's,

I hate to think how many years we've been doing this kind of thing, but this is a new one for me, a podcast

with you whilst we're both in Iceland. Exactly. So, yeah, things are changing really quickly.

And I'd say we're all also learning things really quickly because of the current pandemic,

not least all becoming very quick epidemiological experts. And one of the most important lessons, I'd say, that we've learned over the past few weeks

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